CNN – Asia/Pacific

By Brad Lendon, CNN China has finally showed off its most advanced fighter aircraft with domestic-made engines — a significant milestone as…

By Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea has fired a projectile presumed to be a short-range missile into waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula,…

By Radina Gigova, CNN The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu wants the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to weigh in the rights of current and…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who spent nearly three years in house arrest in Canada, returned home late Saturday, ending a…

By Jessie Yeung, Gladys Tsai and Kazumi Duncan, CNN At 75, Isao Kakehi was in good health and in love. It was 2013, and he had embarked on an…

By Tim Lister, Ehsan Popalzai, Brent Swails, Sandi Sidhu and Celine Alkhaldi The Taliban in Afghanistan have put on public display the bodies of four…

By Paula Newton, CNN Two Canadians detained by China for nearly three years have been released, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced…

By Ben Westcott, CNN In the nearly two years since the pandemic began, Turkmenistan has not seen a single case of Covid-19. Or at least, that’s…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN With China facing a looming demographic crisis, the government last month passed into law a three-child policy raising the…

By Eric Cheung and Brad Lendon, CNN Taiwan on Thursday accused China of “bullying” after Beijing sent a total of 24 warplanes into its…

By Paula Hancocks and Salai TZ, CNN Five-year-old Su Htet Waing often wakes up crying for her mother and older sister. Hiding in the…

By Jessie Yeung and Ben Westcott, CNN After months of lockdown, parts of Southeast Asia are leaving behind their “zero-Covid” policy and…

By Jessie Yeung and Steve George, CNN Last week, a 47-year-old man stormed into a law firm in China’s Wuhan city and shot dead a lawyer who he…

By Hira Humayun and Helen Regan, CNN Female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home, and only women whose jobs cannot be…

By Rebecca Wright, Anna Coren and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Tugging at the folds of the traditional hijab dress, two young sisters jostle and laugh to…

By Nic Robertson, Ingrid Formanek and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Emal Ahmadi knew his brother Zamarai wasn’t the ISIS-K facilitator that American…

By CNN staff Students and lecturers at Hong Kong‘s most prestigious university returned from summer break this month to a very different…

By Nic Robertson, Ingrid Formanek, Taylor Barnes and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The Taliban have denied claims that Afghan women would be banned from…

By Antonia Mortensen, Tim Lister and Phil Black, CNN Wakil’s eyes fill with tears. He has no idea whether he and his family will get out of…

By Amy Sood, CNN A Jakarta court on Thursday ruled the Indonesian government had failed to uphold citizens’ right to clean air, in a landmark…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN An earthquake in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan left at least three people dead and 60 injured on Thursday,…

By Brad Lendon and Blake Essig, CNN Japan is drawing a red line around an island chain also claimed by China, pushing back at Beijing’s…

By Sarah Dean, CNN Taliban co-founder and acting Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar appeared in a television interview Wednesday to…

By Becky Anderson, Zeena Saifi and Helen Regan, CNN Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said the best way forward for peace and stability in…

By Brad Lendon, Jake Kwon, Gawon Bae and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Both North and South Korea tested ballistic missiles on Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions…

By Sarah Dean and Ingrid Formanek, CNN Hundreds of people protested in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar Tuesday, against what they say are…

By Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Anna Coren, Abdul Basir Bina and Ahmet Mengli, CNN To the United States military, he was an ISIS-K facilitator…

By Tim Lister, CNN The Taliban’s leaders are rarely seen at public events and do not readily grant interviews or hold news conferences. Many of…

By Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese authorities are rushing to contain a widening Delta variant outbreak in the southern province of Fujian ahead of a major…

By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN David Cho Yong-gi, a South Korean pastor who founded one of South Korea’s largest and most popular…

By Helen Regan, CNN More than $1 billion in aid has been pledged for Afghanistan to help ease one of the world’s “worst humanitarian…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Personal Birth date: September 21, 1954 Death…

By Masoud Popalzai and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Afghan women around the world are protesting the Taliban‘s new hijab requirement in schools by…

By Sophia Saifi and Ivana Kottasová, CNN A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane from Islamabad touched down in Kabul on Monday…

By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN A man who completed 21 days of mandatory quarantine upon returning to China from overseas has been identified as…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN China has a new sweetheart: 18-year-old US Open winner Emma Raducanu. The British tennis player defeated Canadian Leylah…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at North Korea’s nuclear capabilities and the history of its weapons program. 1985 North Korea signs the…

By Samantha Beech, Jake Kwon and Oren Liebermann, CNN North Korea claims it successfully test-fired new long-range cruise missiles over the weekend,…

By Anna Coren, Radina Gigova and Tim Lister, CNN Harrowing accounts have emerged of the Taliban detaining and brutally assaulting reporters covering…

By Helen Regan and Angus Watson, CNN Super Typhoon Chanthu made landfall in the far northern Philippines on Saturday, bringing destructive winds and…

By Ishtiaq Mahsud and Rob Picheta, CNN In rural Paktika province — at a border crossing with Pakistan, nearly 200 miles south of Kabul —…

By Nic Robertson, CNN Commander Supranullah was busy as we were ushered out of the monsoon rain for shelter on his front porch. The porch doubles as…

By Kareem Khadder, Mostafa Salem and Tara John, CNN A second Qatar Airways passenger flight, which arrived in Afghanistan on Friday, has now departed…

By Haley Brink and Ben Westcott, CNN Vietnam and Taiwan are bracing for powerful twin storms which are expected to make landfall over the weekend.…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Japan’s former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Personal Birth date: December 6, 1948…

By Kara Fox, CNN The Taliban announced the formation of an interim government for Afghanistan this week, with a hardline group of veteran militants…

By Mostafa Salem, Laura Smith-Spark and Sam Kiley, CNN The first international passenger flight to take off from Afghanistan since the chaotic US…

By Jaide Timm-Garcia and Helen Regan, CNN The last known member of Afghanistan’s Jewish community left the country on Friday, taking 30 other…

By Ben Westcott, Jake Kwon and Gawon Bae, CNN South Korea has become the latest country in the Asia Pacific region to consider abandoning its…

By Helen Regan and Hande Atay Alam, CNN China will provide almost $31 million worth of food, winter weather supplies, vaccines, and medicine to…

By Jake Kwon and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea held a midnight military parade in Pyongyang early Thursday to mark the 73rd anniversary of its…

By Masoud Popalzai, Laura Smith-Spark and Tim Lister, CNN Taliban fighters used whips and sticks against a group of women protesting in Kabul on…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. Personal Birth date: March 28, 1945 Birth place:…

By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN A plucky four-year-old dog named Baekgu has shown once again why dogs are man’s best friend. Baekgu’s…

By Ben Westcott, CNN A typhoon headed toward Taiwan and the southern coast of China is rapidly gaining in speed and strength ahead of an expected…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Two Royal Navy patrol ships left the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a five-year deployment that will see them act as “the…

By Jessie Yeung and Eric Cheung, CNN Four activists from the Hong Kong pro-democracy group that organizes the city’s annual Tiananmen Square…

By Tim Lister and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN The Taliban on Tuesday announced the formation of a hardline interim government for Afghanistan, filling top…

By Jake Kwon, Tim Lister, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN The Taliban used gunfire, detentions and beatings to…

By Tim Lister and Radina Gigova, CNN A flimsy gray curtain divides a university classroom in Kabul in two — on one side sit the male students,…

By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Myanmar’s shadow government has launched what it called a “people’s defensive war”…

By Ben Westcott, CNN Singapore has warned it may need to reimpose Covid-19 restrictions if a new outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant is…

Story by Reuters Vietnam jailed a man on Monday for five years for breaking strict Covid-19 quarantine rules and spreading the virus to others, state…

By Joshua Berlinger, CNN When FBI agent Mark Calnan finally met the kingpin whose drug syndicate he’d been investigating for the past six…

By Jaide Garcia and Jonny Hallam, CNN The Taliban murdered a pregnant policewoman in front of her family on Saturday night, according to her son. Her…

By Nic Robertson, Nilly Kohzad, Tim Lister and Helen Regan, CNN The Taliban have claimed victory in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, with a…

By Tim Lister, Radina Gigova and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN and CNN contributors Heavy fighting was reported Sunday in parts of northern…

By Asim Khan and Sophia Saifi, CNN Three people have died and 15 were injured in an attack on paramilitary troops in the city of Quetta in…

By Ivan Watson and CNN staff Tuhan’s family crossed the border from China’s western Xinjiang region to Afghanistan 45 years ago to escape…

By Celine Alkhaldi, Sam Kiley, Rob Iddiols, Tim Lister and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN A small group of Afghan women braved the Taliban-controlled…

By Angus Watson, Nectar Gan and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN The man responsible for Friday’s knife attack in New Zealand has been named as Ahamed…

By Nathan Hodge, Mia Alberti and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN A group of Afghan women activists staged a small protest in Taliban-controlled Kabul Friday…